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Guess they heard of that offer from the D. and O." "What is fourth Vice-president?" Isabelle inquired. "In charge of traffic west headquarters at St. Louis!" He expected that his wife would be elated at this fulfilment of her desires; but instead Isabelle's eyes unaccountably filled with tears. When he understood, he was still more mystified at her dejection.
But the raw American, only arrived a week, is in a maze, a confusion, a hurry. He is excited and mystified. He tries to appear cool and unconcerned, and is simply ridiculous. His cards, bearing his name, title and official status, he distributes as freely as doth the winter wind the snow-flakes. Inquire at the Langham office for Mr. Smith, and you find he has blossomed into General Smith.
Why, she wrote books and books full of notes and cowboy words while she was down here and she's been buried in manuscript for months. When she heard that you were having the round-up early this year she was perfectly frantic to come, but they were right in the midst of writing it and she just couldn't get away." "They?" repeated Hardy, mystified. "Why who "
The more intelligent of them grasped the idea. “Around the world,” they repeated again and again, with a mystified expression. Relief came at last, in the person of a messenger from Osman Beg, the inspector-general of agriculture of the Angora vilayet, bearing an invitation to supper.
"Tony's trying to be smart now," said the larger girl scornfully. "The Lady Board is meeting today, and he always calls them the splintered ladies." "What is a Lady Board?" inquired mystified Peace, thinking this was the queerest home she had ever heard tell of. "Why, they are the ladies who say how things shall be done here "
The visitors, evidently mystified by the footprints, were huddled together, gesticulating wildly. They ran hither and thither like so many ants, minutely examining the mysterious tracks. After a long time Hugh gave vent to an exclamation. "By George! I know what's the matter. They can't understand the prints of our shoes.
You put breed before everything. Unless a man has what you are pleased to term pure blood in his veins he is beyond the pale." "Whatever are you talking about?" said Dot, frankly mystified. He stopped dead and faced her. "I am talking of myself, if you want to know," he told her very bitterly.
I had an idea of what he meant to say, and just saved myself by the privilege of defective hearing. He was too shaken generally to insist, but my mate, close witness of that parting, looked mystified and his face took on a thoughtful cast. As I did not want to appear as if I wished to avoid all communication with my officers, he had the opportunity to address me. "Seems a very nice man.
The thing he had done in his life most directly to please himself was his marrying Miss Archer; though in this case indeed the gullible world was in a manner embodied in poor Isabel, who had been mystified to the top of her bent. Ralph of course found a fitness in being consistent; he had embraced a creed, and as he had suffered for it he could not in honour forsake it.
Kendal was mystified, for he saw that it was Iris' delicate chirography. He tore open the envelope with the fever of impatience, and as his eye fell upon the delicately written lines his handsome face turned white as marble. "My DEAR HARRY," it commenced, "you will feel greatly surprised at the contents of this letter.
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